The Climate Energy Nexus

Auteur

Mark is a professor of Mechanical Engineering with a background in lifecycle economic and environmental assessment of energy systems. He has authored over 60 journal articles and several book chapters on the costs and environmental benefits of clean energy systems. He teaches interdisciplinary courses on thermal systems, energy, economics, and policy.

Texte du rabat

The Climate Energy Nexus: Understanding the Relationship between Energy Production Systems and Climate Trends offers fundamental material on energy and climate systems, progressing to establishing advanced and integrated energy-climate models. Describing the motivation and key challenges in the climate-energy modeling community, this reference looks at the fundamentals of climate and energy systems before integrating them into a cohesive analysis framework. The book presents various energy production optimization case studies spanning urban and national scales, annual to multi-decade long timescales, and various economic and environmental considerations Practitioners and students interested in climate and energy systems will gain a foundational platform from which to develop informed assessments of future energy use. As making informed energy planning decisions requires a better understanding of how climate trends, extreme events, and public policy could impact energy production performance, cost, and emissions, this book is an ideal resource for readers.

Contenu

1. Developments of Climate and energy systems
   
   2. Fundamentals of energy systems
   3. Fundamentals of climate models
   4. Modelling and Optimization of climate-energy systems
   5. Climate-Energy System Models and Energy Policy
   6. Use cases and Examples of Open Source Frameworks